Word: sectionalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortune's Smile. Pershing entered the Army almost by accident. The son of a section foreman from Laclede, Mo., he hoped to become a lawyer, entered West Point only to get a free education. He talked of leaving because promotion was slow. At 40, after service in Indian battles, Cuba and the Philippines, he was still only a first lieutenant...
...Dumping Ground. The church's first congregation numbered a scant 25 souls and was located in a section crammed with Negro war workers. Thurman persuaded them to move. "Until we became strong enough to have a character of our own, I thought we'd better get out of the atmosphere," he explains. The last thing he wanted was for the experiment to develop a settlement-house aura or become "a dumping ground for do-gooders who would get an uplift once a week by coming into the Negro community and helping a struggling interracial activity. I wanted people...
...reporters, who rarely agree, found themselves united at last week's Democratic Convention on one proposition: photographers can be a hell of a nuisance. At the few exciting moments, a human wall of cameramen lined the edge of the speakers' platform. Some reporters in the press section were cut off from a view of the delegates on the floor, while the endless flashbulbs and shrill, insistent cries for "one more!" distracted the speakers...
...joint state funeral, small, earnest U.S. Ambassador Walter Thurston talked long and seriously with General Harry H. Johnson, new chief of the U.S. section of the anti-aftosa commission-out of the corner of his mouth. Afterwards Thurston announced that he had ordered a full investigation. Later he handed to Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet a note deploring the comments of Mexican newspapers...
Hover gets yeoman assistance from the daily gossip columnists. On occasion, they have reported enough celebrities in Giro's to fill a large section of the Hollywood Bowl. Hover encourages these exaggerations by spending $125,000 a year to promote the legend that anyone seen at Giro's must, of necessity, be a member of Hollywood's higher echelons...